Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-04-28

ScHwAsrz and Watt were convicted at
Norris, Ill, on the 10Th, Of the murder CT
Messenger Nichols and robbery OF the ex-
press on the Rock Island road, and SEN
fenced to imprisonment for life.
BosToN creditors recently closed the
Newaygo (Mich-) Furniture Company
works on claims for 1900. throwing $50
men out of employment. The same credit
ors closed the Newaygo Manufacturing
Company few days before. Both compa-
MES were indebted heavily TO their en-
ployes.
THE Burlington & Northern road has re-
duced it's rate on grain and -four from St.
Panl to Chicago, to seven and half cents
hundred. The reason given IS that at ten
cents it was shut out of business on account
of the ''transitn issued by the other roads.
A SCHEME to entrap German citizens by
getting them to send money to bogus Ger
man Government lottery has been I'M
earthed in Chicago.
THE clgarmakers of Detroit are expected
to strike, several firms refusing to give the
present wages any longer.
QUEEN KAPIoLAUI and her suite Of the
Hawaiian kingdom reached San Francisco
on the Goth on their way to England.
THE Surveyor General of Dakota has
been notified to survey several townships
in and on the great bend of the Missouri,
near Huron, D. T. 1t is understood that
these lands are those from which white
settlers are to be driven by troops. Under
the Land in Severalty law Indians have
chosen the lands at these points as those
which they wish allotted to them.
REV ROBERT w. SPRINGER, assistant rec
tor of Grace Episcopal Church, Chicago,
who disappeared recently, was found in
sane from congestion of the brain.
THE annual encampment of the Grand
Army posts of Iowa began at Dubuque on
the Goth. Over thouss nd veterans partici-
pated in the parade.
MICHIGAN legislators are accused of shav-
ing forced a railroad into giving them
passes by darkly limiting at State railroad
legislation.
HERMAN LEVY, known Electrically Gs
Henry Leavitt, the infor1ner in the Had
dock murder trial, has begun 1000 libel
suit against the Chicago Hail for calling
him a loafer, thief and confidence man.
A SPECIAL from Kent, o., tells of dia-
bolical attempt to kill Prof. Thomas San
ford, of that place, with an Internal ma
chine. A small box was left in the hallway
of his residence. Being suspicious, Prof.
Sanford threw the box into the yard. when
an explosion occurred which shattered the
windows of an adjacent house.
A RECENT special from Marquette, Mich,
says a gang of seven men We're blasting at
Murphy's camp, seven miles from Crystal
Falls, when terrible dynamite explosion
occurred, fearfully injuring August Brash,
John Good, William Hornbrook, Joseph
Weisman and three others.
ANTI-LICENsE tickets were elected in
many small places in Illinois on the 18th.
Most of the cities declared for license.
A COLLISION occurred recently on the Air
Line near Hunting burg, Ind, between a con-
struction and freight train by which three
men were killed and several wounded, all
laborers and train hands.
The Secretary of the Illinois Board of
Health has called for a conference of the
health authorities of cities and towns at
Springfield for the purpose of discussing
sanitary measures.
DETROIT and Duluth business men are
exercised by the fear that the Sault Ste.
Marie canal improvements will hinder navi-
CATION. They had conference recently
with General o. NJ. Pope, Chief of United
States Engineers, on the matter.
A COMMITTEE of local assembly 1923,
Knights of Labor, Chicago, has sent an
address to General Master Workman Pow
derby protesting against his rejoicing over
the defeat of the United Labor ticket in
Chicago. The address claims that Mr.. Pow
derly's remarks have a tendency to bring
the order into disrepute.
THE steamer City of Sydney, which ar
rived at San Francisco on the 2lst from
SAIHd anu Japan, OTOuSuG 1OO-oOU GIduG QOI-
lars, which are to be redeemed for standard
dollars. The previous Chinese steamer
brought S370,O00.
A TORNADO passed through the country
adjacent to Colony, Kan, on the 2lst. One
woman was reported killed.
Two deputy recorders Of votes were SEN
fenced in the United States court at st.
Louis on the 21st to terms in the jail for
fraudulent registration of voters last fall.
J. Il PrAn6RrpaSt
Jail and j. j. Stanley three months.